/**
 * Copyright (C)
 * 	2008 Jeremy Thomerson <jeremy@thomersonfamily.com>
 * 	2012 Michael Mosmann <michael@mosmann.de>
 *
 * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
 * contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
 * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
 * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
 * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
 * the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
 *
 *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 *
 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
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 */
package org.wicketstuff.pageserializer.common.analyze;

import java.util.List;

/**
 * serialized tree
 * 
 * @author mosmann
 * 
 */
public interface ISerializedObjectTree
{
	/**
	 * node id
	 * 
	 * @return
	 */
	ObjectId id();

	/**
	 * node type
	 * 
	 * @return type
	 */
	Class<? extends Object> type();

	/**
	 * node label if any
	 * 
	 * @return type
	 */
	String label();

	/**
	 * size of object without children
	 * 
	 * @return size in bytes
	 */
	int size();

	/**
	 * size of all children
	 * 
	 * @return size in bytes
	 */
	int childSize();

	/**
	 * list of children
	 * 
	 * @return immutable
	 */
	List<? extends ISerializedObjectTree> children();

}
